It is part of the character of thoughts relating to the supernatural that they can and should link the most...
Every increase, every true higher development of the organism, can only be achieved by outgrowing itself. Each expansion is followed...
The path to thinking and ‹seeing› of the heart goes through the sacrifice of everything familiar, all elements of the past – these may only live on transformed into free, improvisational abilities. And they must be sacrificed in and through living thought, which has its source in true, always intuitive...
The Doppelgänger or ‹double› cannot be taken into the palace square of the deity. It must be dissolved – or,...
We began with ‹thinking› and ended with ‹thanking›. Whether or not there is an etymological relationship between these two words,...
Is it narcissistic assertiveness and satisfaction of our desires, without regard for our fellow human beings? Is it the relinquishment of self-assertion in devotion and sacrifice to people or tasks? Can self-realisation arise at all in one of these directions? Is self-realisation in general a process that only proceeds in...
Will arises from sympathy. Will is, we might say, another aggregate state of sympathy: consolidated or condensed sympathy, which turns...
Every metanoia, i.e., inner transformation, has something paradoxical about it: on the one hand, I want to overcome the old...
Answers to the questions by Gilda Bartel in ‹Das Goetheanum› 29/30, 20th of July 2022: Peace is quiet. S. Thein Peace can be a need, but it doesn’t have to be. It depends on the quality of peace. Sometimes a popsicle is enough, sometimes nothing less than God’s grace. Margrith...
The weekly staff meeting at the Goetheanum has recently featured individual coworkers speaking about what the spiritual world means to...
Changes in the demographics of Central Europe are placing a significant strain on society. The first wave of people born...












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